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MATCH-MAKING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 332,737, dated December22, 1885.

Application filed m 13, 1885. Se1'in1N0.1G5,'294. (NOIIIOdOLl To allwhom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE E. NoRRis and WILLIAM E. HAGAN, of the cityof Troy, county of'Rensselaer, State of New York, have invented a newand useful Improvement in Machines for Making Matches, of which thefollowing is a specification.

Our invention relates to certain attachments to machines for makingmatch splints or to blanks, our improvements having for their object theinsertion of the splints or blanks (as produced by the machine) within aweb for dipping, and for other uses.

Our invention is more particularly adapted r 5 to that class of machinesby which the splints or blanks are cut from a veneer of wood by means oftwo rollers that are actuated to move together, and which are providedwith grooves, and intermediate cutting-edges that are ar- -rangedcoincidently in said rollers parallel to their axes, and as appearing inan applica- -tion for Letters Patent made by us, and filed in the PatentOiiice February 13, 1885, and which is now pending.

Accompanying this specification, to form a part of it, there are fiveplates of drawings, containing fourteen figures, illustrating ourinvention, with the same designation of parts by letter-reference usedin all of them.

Of these illustrations, Figure l is a perspective of a machine formaking matchsplints containing our invention, with that side of themachine on which the driving-pulley is placed and the delivery or frontend of the 5 machine turned toward the sight and the driving-pulleyremoved. Fig. 2 is aperspective of the same machine that is shown atFig.

1, but with that side of it which is opposite to the one on which thedriving-pulley is placed 0 and the front end of the machine turnedtoward the sight. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section taken on theline 00 0c of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a vertical section taken on the line a x of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 isa vertical section 5 taken on the line no a of Fig. 3, omitting themachinebed and the chain belts. Fig. 6 is a vertical section taken onthe line 00* of Fig.

3. Fig. 7 is a vertical section of the shaft and sprocket-drum and therollershaft which 5 operate the chain belt that forces the splints intothe web, with that stretch of the chain the splints onto said plate, andthe. springs across said opening under which the splints pass. othermechanism the presser-frame, which, when in position in the machine, isover the splints on the machine-bed, after they have passed out fromunder the rubber roller and Fig. 9 designates as detached from the fromoff the concavely-curved guide-plate.

Fig. 10 is a perspective of a part of the machine-loed, part of theupper fold-plate, and

the side plates which position and shape the Web to produce alongitudinal puncturingfold therein, and showing also a part of the webthreaded upon said plates. Fig. 11 is a cross-section taken on the line00% of Fig. 10. Fig. 12 is a longitudinal section taken on the line no:0 of Fig. 10 and Fig. 13 is a view in perspective of a part of thelower cutting-rollers,and the fingers which strip the veneer from offsaid roller. Fig. 14 is a longitudinal vertical section taken throughthe cutting and pressing rollers, their shafts, and connectinggear-wheels, taken on the line a x of Fig. 3. Figs. 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10,and 11 are shown with the parts in larger proportion than in Figs. 1 and2.

The several parts of the mechanism thus illustrated are designated byletter-reference,

and the function of the parts is described as follows:

The letters It and R designate two cutting and pressing rollers that areof the same size, and which are constructed to be connected by thegear-wheels G and G so as to move together, each of them being made withgrooves g and interniediately-placed cutting-edges e, that are arrangedin the cylindrical face of said rollers in lines that are parallel totheir axes. These rollers have also two ring-form grooves, 9 which areplaced in the cylindrirco' cal face of each roller, so as to bevertically parallel in both of them when they are in position one abovethe other in the machine.

The letter I designates a rubber roller arranged on a shaft having itsbearings in the machine-frame F", said rubber roller being provided witha groove, a, made in revolution in its cylindrical face at each end tocarry thereat an endless conveying chain belt, 0'.

The letter L indicates a concavely-curved guide-plate that rests on themachine-frame, and the concave thereon is made to curve coincidently tothe face of the rubber roller I, but to be far enough away from it toleave a passage-way, O, for the movement therein of the splints as theyare drawn along over the concave by the two conveying chain belts O andtheir engagement with the cylindrical face of the rubber roller 1. Thisconcavelycurved guide-plate is made to have an opening, a provided withtwo downwardly-projected leaf-springs, h h, from underneath the lowerends. of which the splints pass onto the concave.

The letter F indicates two fingers arranged on a plate, p, which areadapted to enter the ring-form grooves ofjthe upper roller, R, tounderrun and to strip the adhering veneer of partly-cut splintstherefrom when at the bottom of the roller, from whence they passdownwardly through a passage-way, '01, formed between the lower rollerand the concave surface plate L, and adapted to enter thering-form drawninto and through the machine by means grooves of said lower roller. Fromthence the splints are forced through an opening, (H, on the guide-plateL, when the ends of' each splint are caught by the recesses r,oppositelymade in the outer face of the conveying chainlinks, and carried downalong over the. concave surface of the guide-plate L and along over thebed B.

The letter D indicates a drum arranged on a horizontal shaft, S. Wdesignates a gearwheel on the said shaft, which receives power fromagear-wheel, V and communicates mo tion to said shaft S and the drum Darranged thereon. The drum D has two sprocketgrooves, d, in revolutionthereon, each of which is adapted to communicate motion to one of theendless conveying-chains O C. These conveying-chains run in the drums D,and in grooves a in revolution on the rubber roller I.

The letter M designates a roll of paper forming the web, into which thesplints are inserted crosswise, so as to pass twice through the Web toinclude an intermediate outfold made therein longitudinally. This web Mis arranged to have a shaft, 0, passed through it centrally, and whichshaft is made to be inserted in or removed from open-top bearingsarranged'at the sides of the roll. The web is of two rubber rollers, I 1located at the defrom thence is extended frontward nearly to the rubberroller 1 in a line horizontally parallel to the machine-bed. While theraised center of the web is thus passing over the raised fold-plate a,with the side edges of the web in a lower plane. beneath the adjacentside edges of the plates 12 n two puncture foldlines, 0 0, are producedin the web, one of them being at each side of the plate n, and throughwhich a splint maybe forced cross wise or pinned into the web, with thecentral part of each of the splints within the fold where raised, andthe opposite ends of the splints projected therefrom, as shown at m ofFigs. 1 and 2. The fold-plate n and the plates n are arranged on themachine-bed at one side of the line of the traverse made by the belt- Iconveying chains 0, with the machine-bed on the lineof the said platesrecessed, as indicated at i of Fig. 10.

The letters 0 indicate an endless-chain belt, the function of which isto force the splints laterally crosswise into the web, and this chainbelt is arranged to be operated by a drum, (2, provided withsprocket-teeth and to run on a roller, 01, having a vertical shaft, Sthe drum d having a vertical shaft, S. This vertical shaft S receivespower from a beveled gear-wheel, g, on its upper end, which meshes intoa beveled gear-wheel, g, on the shaft S. The vertical shafts S and S onand by which the chain belt 0 is operated, are arranged in a line thatmakes an acute angle with the line of direction in which the web moves,and the said chain belt is so operated that the stretch IIO of thelatter which is adjacent to the splints,

moves toward the delivery end of the machine, with the top of the chainbelt 0 just above theadjacent part ofthe bed B,the body of the chainbelt being arranged to run in a sink, Y, made in the machine-bed. Asthus arranged, with the web and the endless-chain belt (3 moving at thesame speed, when each of the recesses i, made in the outer face of thelinks composing the belt-chain 0 comes in contact with the adjacent endof each one of the splints as they are being moved by the chains 0.While leaving the latter the chain 0 pushes the splints lateral-1y asthey move forward, so that they will pass through the upfold made in theweb where at each side of the plate a, and where indicated at O, asshown at Figs. 1', 2, and

11, and by which the splints are inserted inthe. web, and by the latterare carried out of the machine, as indicated at in. As the splints arebeing moved over the bed Bhorizontally, they are,

helddownonthelatterbythepressing-framef,

arranged over them between the'rubber roller I and the shaft S. Theletters if designate bars of rubber arranged on the bottom of the framef, which are in contact with the passing splints. By means of theendless chains 0 on each side of the rubber roller the splints at theirends are caught by recesses in the chain-links, while the rubbeurollerface is in contact with them between the said chains, and rolls themalong over the concave on the guide-plate L,to clean them of adheringfiber, the ends of the splints turning in the recesses formed in thelinks of the conveying chains while this is being done.

The method of cutting the splints by means of the two cutting andpressing rollers B and R the method of stripping the splints from offthe rollers, excepting as herein shown to be modified, when comparedwith our older application before named, and the application of therubber roller I arranged to operate in connection with theconcavely-curved guide-plate L, excepting as said roller is constructedto operate the conveying chains 0, and said guideway is constructed withan opening, a", form no part of the invention made the subject of claimherein, excepting as they are connected with the means added to put thesplints into a dipping-web, and hence are not described in detail.

The cutting-rollers are operated by the power applied to a connectinggear-wheel on the shalt of the lower cutting-roller, B, and by agcar'wheel on the latter power is communicated to gear-wheel G on the upperroller-shaft.

To operate the rubber roller 1, power is applied to a gear-wheel, W onthe rubber-roller shaft.

To operate the shaft S, on which the drum D is placed, and which, inconnection with the rubber roller I, operates the conveying-belt chains0, power is applied to the gear-wheel on the end of the shaft S, and theshalt S has a gear-wheel, W, on the end opposite to that at which itreceives power, and this meshes into a wheel, W and the latter into awheel, W, that actuates' a wheel, WV, on the shaft S which operates therubber rollers l".

Any form of geared connection of the parts may be used that will movethe conveyingbelt chains 0, so that on their lower stretch they willmove toward the front of the machine, and at the same speed as the webmoving in the same direction, and any form of arrangement of gearedconnection that will also move the puncturing chain belt, so that itwill have the same speed as the conveying-chains and the web, may beused.

The function of the endless-chain belts 0 being to receive the matcheswhen passing through the opening a made in the curved guide-plate, andtokeep them at a proper distance from each other, any form of recess maybe used in the chain which will perform the same function; and thefunction of the endless-chain belt 0 being to communicate lateral motionto a line of moving splints, so as to force them into a web moving inthe same direction, any form of chain and recess may be used that willperform the same function in substantially the same manner.

Having thus described our invention, what we'claiin, and desire tosecure by Letter Patent, 1s

1. The combination, with the splint cutting and pressing rollers B andR, each having the circumterentially-arranged grooves {1 and connectedby gears to move together, of the fingers F, constructed to enter saidgrooves of the upper roller, B, to strip the splints from off the bottomof the latter, the fingers F, arranged to enter the said circumferentialgrooves of the lower roller, R, to. strip the splints from the side ofthe latter, and the concavely-curved guide-plate L, made with thepassage a substantially in the manner as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination of the concavely-curved guide-plate L,'made with theopening a", the rubber roller I, made with the! grooves a, and arrangedwith reference to said guideplate substantially as shown, the drum D,arranged on the shaft S, the endless conveying chain belts C, and thebed B, said parts being constructed and arranged to operatesubstantially in the manner set forth.

3. The combination, with the bed B, of the endless chains 0 O,constructed to be actuated by the roller I and drum D, substantially asdescribed, the web M, having a longitudinally and centrally arrangedupfold, the rollers I I constructed to draw said web through themechanism, and the endless-chain belt 0", constructed to be actuated bythe sprocketdrum (1 and roller d relative to the traverse of said chain0 and the said web, substantially in the manner as and for the purposesset forth.

4. The combination of the fold-plate n, made to curve upwardly fromwhere attached at the rear of the machine-bed, as shown, and therefromextended frontwardly in aline hori zontally parallel with but above themachinebed, the side fold-platesm a, each of which is arranged over andabove the bed, but below and at one side of the said plate a,substantially as shown, and the endless-chain belt 0', operated by meansof a vertical sprocket drum and roller with the stretch of said chainbelt that is adjacent to the said fold'plates, making an acute anglewith the latter and moving thereat toward the delivery end of themachine, as and for the purposes set forth.

5. The combination, with the bed B, of the conveying-chains G C,constructed to be operated by the roller I and drum D, substantially asdescribed, the presser-frame f, having the rubber strips o the web M,having a longitudinally and centrally arranged upfold, the rollers l I",and the endless chain 0 actuated by the sprocket-drum d and roller 01all substantially in the manner as and for the purposes set forth.

6. The combination, with the bed B, of the IIO web M, having a centrallyand longitudinally 27th day of April, 1885, and in the presence arranged.upfold made therein, the rollers I", of the two witnesses whose nameswere by 10 constructed to move said web, and the endlessthem heretowritten.

chain belt 0, arranged to be actuated by the GEORGE E. NORRIS.

5 drum d and roller 01 to move relatively to WILLIAM E. HAGAN.

the traverse of said web, substantially in the Witnesses: manner as andfor the purposes set forth. CHARLES S. BRINTNALL,

Signed at the city vof Troy, New York, this STANLEY M. HOLDEN.

